Palace's achievement of staying in the Premier League for the first time has been overshadowed by the row, but Pulis, speaking before tomorrow's visit to West Ham, insisted they have no case to answer.

"I think obviously Cardiff and whatever they've got to do... it has been disappointing that they have been dropping stuff out to the press," he explained.

"If we have to go up and meet the Premier League or whoever it is that we have to meet, then we'll do it in the right and proper manner. We won't do it any other way and I think that is important

"As a manager and as a coach, I log every session that I do and I'll be taking those sessions up to the Premier League to show that I picked my team on Monday before we played Cardiff on the Saturday.

"That team was worked with for a week and there were no changes in it whatsoever."

And when asked whether this kind of thing happens generally, Pulis preferred to discuss Palace 's remarkable season," the former Stoke boss added.

"I don't want to go into it. I think the important thing is that we talk about other things.

"It has been such a great achievement. We've brought the club together. We've managed to bring this football club together.

"The supporters, the atmopshere, the people in the boardroom, whether you are a young supporter or an older supporter, everybody has just come together as one.

"It has been that community togetherness I think that has been the real hallmark of the success that we've achieved."